BEING CONSCIOUS: Part 2 — I'm A Lie

[3 of 5—to begin click here:  BEING CONSCIOUS: A Brief Introduction]

Now No-Thing's in and on and any and all the rest, and intrigued to say the least, but No-Thing wants to know more.  The story's only just begun after all.  Every ending is a new beginning.  And... 

BEHOLD THE GLOBAL ROUNDUP

We've come a long way from the hunter-gatherers we used to be—at least that's what we're told. 

We've formed ourselves into groups, and groups of groups, so we live in a complex society now.  We've achieved a sometimes inspiring level of culture in the arts, uncovered some intriguing technologies through science, and are in the process of initiating a spiritual synthesis that may hold great promise, depending on how we handle it. 

That's the good news.

INFOMANIA

We've also collected a mass of externalized information and experience (for what it's worth empirically) particularly over the last century or so and most notably in the past few years.  But with this veritable Everest of data now online and at our fingertips we should pause for a moment to think about what we're going to do with it.  There are repercussions to blindly assimilating raw data.